Technology

Smartwatch design and features have been stagnant in recent years, and that’s mostly due to the mediocre mobile processors we’ve had available. The Snapdragon Wear 2100 was running on old technology when it launched in 2016, and Qualcomm has been slow to launch a newer wearable chip. The updated Wear …

It’s a foregone conclusion that OnePlus is gearing up to launch a new phone, which it has done around this time for the past two years. The rumored OnePlus 6T has been the subject of a handful of leaks, but the basic stats aren’t hard to figure out if you …

Now that 40MP+ cameras and 4K and higher video resolutions are commonplace, the demand for storage at all levels is going through the roof. Fortunately, disk drives are also getting larger. Less than a year after introducing 12TB models, Seagate has just launched several models of 14TB 3.5-inch drives that …

Last week, we reported on Intel’s manufacturing constraints and the difficulties the company faces in ramping up additional 14nm production. Today, a new report claims that the CPU giant will outsource some of its chipset production to TSMC to ease its own capacity woes on 14nm. That’s the word from …

The Mac-based Adware Doctor is one of the most popular apps in the Mac App Store and the 4th highest-grossing application. Apple positions the Mac Store as the safest place to download Mac software and literally states in its ad copy that “The safest place to download apps for your …

UL, which owns 3DMark, has issued its own statement on Huawei’s benchmarking practices after the company was discovered to be artificially inflating its benchmark performance by pushing its SoCs out of thermal bounds when benchmarks were added to a whitelist that allowed the SoC to run at clocks that actually …

The Chinese manufacturer Huawei has been distributing devices with secret benchmark modes enabled, drastically misrepresenting the performance of these devices and inflating their test results. It’s far from the first time we’ve been down this road, either with benchmarking or mobile devices, but what Huawei has done is a little …

Samsung has issued updates for its own foundry roadmap and processes, making it an excellent time to revisit what the company is planning to roll out in the next few years. The foundry industry has been rocked in recent weeks by GlobalFoundries’ announcement that it would leave the leading edge …

Windows 7 might be on its way to being Microsoft’s new Windows XP. As the Redmond company urges consumers and businesses to upgrade to Windows 10, many customers are happily staying on Windows 7 despite the rapidly approaching end of support. Microsoft’s VP for Office and Windows marketing Jared Spataro …

Twitter is launching a new feature that allows users to create audio-only broadcasts directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. The feature, which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed in a tweet this morning, is available from the same interface where you would normally launch live video. It’s currently …